Greetings dear Reader,
There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? The finals are indeed coming and with that the end of the semester.
It is already December, space-time continuum has apparently curved so drastically that I feel like I started the semester only yesterday. And it seems more like a reality.
Unfortunately and to my shame in the very beginning of the fall the blog stayed in a limbo state, with only About section filled in. This maybe why many of you know cannot recall the name of my blog. I was stumbled upon the direction I need to take it to deliver a good quality work. Nonetheless, on the other note, it is hard to underscore the skills I have learned throughout the class, into which I came with somewhat little knowledge of what kind of job the multimedia journalism really is.
We started off with an essential multimedia journalism skill: to record audio interviews. Since then each week a new tool was added to our “journalistic” gear. Even though I actually knew most of them even before, e.g. cutting audio and video, creating slideshows and etc., I found new something new like social media storytelling using the “apps” such as Thinglink and Storyify. Yet, the greatest beneficial aspect of the course was to become more comfortable with interviewing people and, afterwards, exercising it in neat ways.
Over the past I was on a hunt for film/video-production community spirit on AUBG campus. I found it in generous volunteers, media, student clubs, aspiring filmmakers. I interviewed different AUBG students and tortured with questions about creative values: Dumitrita Pacicovschi, Kira Kirichenko and Pavel Kukushkin, Evgeni Bizhev from German Club, Petar Agov from More-Honors, Ivan Onoshko from The Purple Studio, Darya Bavykina, Heidi Pullyard from The Bubble and my last favorite Sergey Zhelezko.
I’m sorry for the misleading title, but I can assure you this is not yet my last post. Hopefully, I will be able to get on the much-anticipated screening of “Buzludzha: Memories in the Dust” made by Documentary Filmmaking class students and after that I will write an exclusive mini-review, more likely just an opinion piece, on the documentary feature. So, stay tuned until the end of the week for my last bit!
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